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2018 Recap & Recent Trips

December 31, 2018 by Capt. Jim

WOW where do I begin?

2018 Was a great year for fishing. We seen more double digit Bass then ever before.. We had many trips where there was more then 40 bass caught and the spring time trips seen many 3-4 pounders that was in them 40+ bass days. How about the 5-7 pounders there sure wasn’t a shortage for them either, heck in September and October we seen an abundance of 1-2 pounders and they was in really big schools, and that looks like we have a great looking future here at Lake Guntersville.. I think we are a year away from some really big days like we seen in 2013 and 2014.

GBG is considered LUCKY.

This year we had Capt. Shane on board and with his skills and knowledge he guided many clients to great days on the water, from a double digit bass to almost winning an hour in the big bass tournament. Its been a blessed year for sure. We are proud to say he will be with us again for 2019..

December Fishing…. Well its been good real good.. I Have not gone everyday but I’ve gone every week a least once.. We’ve had some rain and the river is up and getting dingy the water temps have climbed to 53 from last weeks 46 degrees. Lot of floating grass, logs, cat tails, and trash so you need to be careful you could lose a lower unit or something even worse.. So no need to be in a big hurry out there.. The grass is pretty much ripped up and swept down current so new growth can start in a few weeks.

Heres some recent guide trips and buddy fishing trips…

2019 Bookings click here

Call 256-698-6593

Capt. Jim

www.guntersvillebassguides.com

256-698-6593

Leary Wilson Win Black Friday Tournament For 2nd Time

November 26, 2018 by Capt. Jim

Eric Wilson & Jim Leary Win With A Big Limit In 6th Annual Black Friday Tournament Out Of Waterfront Bay on Lake Guntersville.

GUNTERSVILLE BASS GUIDES — WILSON LEARY WIN BLACK FRIDAY WITH 24.62LBS

We caught em all day, it was all in the retrieve of the rig. ( yup we threw it ) The big one did give us a slight panic attack when she ate at the boat with very little line out, after that it was chunk in winding, we did a lot of moving around hunting big fish and they wasn’t everywhere, and they changed a lot during the day.. With the new C-Map we was able to keep up with em, matched with my Lowrance Carbon we could call our shots….We had a blast..

Mike Harvey was in town to try to top his personal best that he caught in the spring CLICK HERE to check it out. We had one day that the fishing was just hard, then the other two days was jammed up. We checked the area where he caught that monster and with no luck at all they just wasn’t there, but in typical Mike fashion he catches the 1st bass each day and had several on me each day, now the last day we fished together I figured out a little something and we caught a lot of fish it was pretty dumb..

Glen had a pretty good day we had a short 4 hour trip and he learn that the rig bite is fun..

December is just about here and that means the SmallMouth Bite should be getting right on Wheeler if your wanting to give the smallies a go then CONTACT ME and we can set something up.

2019

Officially Booking Trips For 2019 Season

February & March are filling up already like they always do.

Booking Info CLICK HERE

To Inquire About Available Dates CLICK HERE

We Have An Opening With The Volume Of Trips We Have Its Time To Expand.

Contact Capt. Jim HERE

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Gift Certificates Are Available HERE

CAPT. JIM

www.guntersvillebassguides.com

256-698-6593

Wilson & Leary Win Back2Back Jakked Baits Tournaments

November 12, 2018 by Capt. Jim

Lake Guntersville November 12th 2018, Fall has arrived with some cold wind.. But the Bass Fishing has shown some great improvement in the last 5 days, with the numbers going down and the quality going up the fun has just begun.

Eric Wilson And I Won the Jakked Baits Tournament on Saturday with 18.36lbs with a 6.12lb Big Bass and the weather wasn’t the best, the 1st nasty cold front rolled in with high winds and a strong cold north wind that made the fish sluggish and when it should of made them strap the feed bags on and go to chewing.. It wasn’t easy to say the least, we had to fight floating grass and grass still growing and the wind, so when one of us would call for the net we kinda had to scream due to having a beanie and hoodie on over our heads we couldn’t hear much, the wind laid down around 1 o’clock and thats when we was able to make a couple of culls that helped in the win.. The New C-Map helped in finding another niched spot by being able to select the depth and the color to make the map pop and the spot scream right here right here then with Lowrance Structure Scan to confirm they was there and ready to eat was the deal..

BACK2BACK wins in this tournament and this was a special one for sure with the unique trophies this was a great one to win.. This tournament will grow more each year with all the work that Tom and his crew do it will be one of the more popular ones on the lake..

The water temp has gotten below 60 and we are catching some crappie while we are bass fishing and this can only lead to more and bigger bass showing up in the weeks to come.

Some of the water is clear and some water is dingy

With Winter around the corner and some of the best SmallMouth Fishing to come we are booking smallmouth trips.

Its Been A Fun Week! Come Fishing and have a chance at some big ones.

As for Guntersville Trips we will have select dates open through December and January email for openings

With Black Friday coming up we will once again offer Gift Certificates at a discounted price but on Cyber Monday On Friday the 23rd we will release what will be discounted, and if your part of our newsletter that goes out then you will receive more info on the discounted items. NEWSLETTER Click the link to signup.

We went Sunday for a few hours and caught all the ones that wanted to bite.. Good Time With A Good Buddy!

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Capt. Jim

256-698-6593

www.guntersvillebassguides.com

GUNTERSVILLE IS ABOUT RIGHT

November 3, 2018 by Capt. Jim

This pass week was probably one of the busiest weeks this lake has seen in awhile, Guntersville Bass had their helmets on ,

If your reading this and see the results from both tournaments and are thinking wow that place is sucking bad … well don’t let it keep you from coming here, the fishing is good but when you stack 500-600 boats on here the fish get split up and overly pressured. Yes the lake has fished better this year then the last two, but we are not fully recovered from the fish kill we had . Maybe the two towns could work together on scheduling these large tournaments and help the lake get back to what she use to be like. Now they might say they can’t control who has a tournament but they can control paying the tournaments to come at certain times. Well enough about things that will more then likely never happen ,

So the SPRO frog tournament wasn’t the best , Caulk it up to a bad year for the frog!

Well it’s shaping up to be a great time out here for us here at GBG. Our numbers are slowing from 50-70 fish to 20 but the SIZE is getting bigger.

November dates are available

Heres some pics.

For Booking Info or to Book CLICK HERE

Capt Jim

256-698-6593

www.guntersvillebassguides.com

Looks Like We Went WorldWide

Lake Guntersville Fun Fall Fishing

October 21, 2018 by Capt. Jim

October is coming to an end and the big girls are still a little funky..But Guntersville has a bright future we have had a week of incredible numbers. And on the last trip we noticed some are growing up. It will be a matter of days and this place will be WIDE OPEN Prolly just in time for the Costa Championship. Im sure the bridges will be where its won.. Its Guntersville and they can throw the A-Rig.

So ,…. we’ve been pretty busy catching fish like stated above just not the BIG ones “yet”.. avg 30 with as many as 79 in a day, a few time we wouldn’t move the boat for at least and hour…its not something I normally be proud of but sometimes you just gotta roll with the punches.. heck it makes a fun day ( trying not to get a hook in ya) them little fellas are full of energy..

Water Temp is 69 as of Saturday

Murky water in most areas due to the wind.

Will the SPRO be any good? With the lack of mats out there this year its gonna be tough for the Froggers.. From what I can tell it’ll take a little bit of luck to win it this year..

Have some news for next year.. so keep your eyes open for it ..

Winter Time Smallies On Wheeler

Capt. Jim will be doing select dates for smallmouth trips

Capt. Jim And Josh Bertus tested the Wheeler Waters with a pretty good day..

So I want to brag on Capt. Shane.

He’s been doing some awesome work the past two weeks ( always does) Big Bass

He Guided Roger Ridenhour for the Big Bass Tournament and he took 2nd in one of the hours

Then He Guided Eric to a fish of a lifetime.. The Lake he lives by just don’t have much to brag about.. Capt. Shane has worked his tail off to put our clients on good bass.. He has more patience then I do… Hats off..

We Do Have The 24th 25th & 26th Open

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Capt. Jim

www.guntersvillebassguides.com

256-698-6593

TopWater Fishing Lake Guntersville 10-5-18 Updated 10-7-18

October 5, 2018 by Capt. Jim

Heres an update for Lake Guntersville :

Water temp was 77 degrees in the mornings and the Most recent is 82 at the beginning of the day,

TVA keeps fluctuating the water .. And that is hurting the frog bite. A lot of it is from the rain we just had but dang.

So what does all this mean? The bass are confused maybe.. heck you can’t catch them in the same area back to back days.. But when your run into them you make sure you knock their lights..

These pics above are from an flat out awesome day of Frog Fishing .. You might recognize the two guys….

Had a day of days this past Monday. It was a blast..

Now these pics are from a couple of weeks , with the fishing about to pick up we will be posting weekly again.

**** UPDATE****

Seen an increase on action on Saturday. A lot of Bites just the big girls just are not comfy yet with all the ups and downs… I feel by the end of the week this place will be crazy.. First real cold front coming, TVA taking the bottom out of the lake, Grass topping out all over, Hurricane coming in from the Gulf… Should make for some awesome fishing…

We have a guide open for most days in October, no promises but theres a good chance we can get you on the water.. Check out below for booking info…

For Booking INFO CLICK HERE

or Call 256-698-6593

256-698-6593

www.guntersvillebassguides.com

Guntersville And Chickamauga Bass Fishing

September 12, 2018 by Capt. Jim

September on Lake Guntersville… Is already fishing better then August, for as long as I have fished here September has always been the struggle month and this year its showing signs of being unbelievably one of the best months.. Why ??? No Clue … But we will take it..

The Bite Picked Up the Thursday before Labor Day and it stayed strong the next week, between trips and practice for the BFL it was call your shot, things was looking like 25-30lb sack wouldn’t be out of the question for the 1st day of the Super Tournament. No clue what changed in less then 12 hours, it sucked the big fish vanished in most of the areas , there was one area they was still in and feeding but pretty much impossible to catch… It was really one of them days where if it could go wrong it did and well it did .. Have you ever had braid go in between your thumb nail and skin and go in 1/4 inch? that was just one of the things, well I managed to catch two 15inch bass and I knew I just needed to weigh one to make the regional, but at the end of the day I really didn’t feel like going through weigh in .. I was truly miserable and disgusted with my lack of ability to relocate them or make them bite when it counted. Theres still a chance I could get a call to go I’m 59th in points 45 gets a invite 5 are doubled qualified so 8 guys would have to turn it down, then again I could go to the wild card and see..

So Sunday the 2nd, went to Chickamauga with Davey and Preston from Virgina, It was one of them days. We caught em good.. And it was a little windy at times.

I was lucky enough to land 3 Big Bass and 1 Decent one, and the one I lost on the cast before the pic with me holding up 3 fingers was an absolute monster of a bass, she thought she was a tarpon. Got her within 5 feet of the boat and she jumped one last time and slung the bait… but the next cast I caught another big un..

Preston caught the 1st one of the day and a few more and Davey does what Davey does . He gets in on the action catching him a good one.. It wasn’t an easy bite but once they got the feel for it they started getting them.. You might not be able to tell but they had been up for like 36 hours at one point in the day, and thats from not knowing where they wanted to fish… Left Virgina and headed south Saturday morning stopped at Chic and night fished then drove to Guntersville and got to my house at 4 a.m. then we loaded up and drove back to Chic and fished till dark.. They was Team No Sleep..

We Had A Blast.

So came back to Guntersville and to the fish that I had found on Thursday ….. yea they moved.. but we relocated some and managed to get some, but once again it wasn’t a easy bite …

As you can see they got right already this week.. Didn’t get a chance to take any pics Monday it just rained all day, I fished with Joe from Kentucky Lake and we caught plenty of fish and lost plenty too..

Sorry you had to look at the selfies but when your alone or just trying to be sneaky with out showing all the other people out there you have one you do what you gotta do.

September Has Dates Open click here to inquire

Water Temp 81

Clarity 2-3 feet

Grass is still just under the surface In majority of the lake

Capt. Jim

www.guntersvillebassguides.com

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Guntersville Is Fishing…..

August 19, 2018 by Capt. Jim

Lake Guntersville August 19th 2018… Timing is everything, and so is current. TVA has been turning on the generators between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. about every day and shutting them off around 1 a.m. and from then till they come back on the water backs up. So the mats that you have been froggin are not there in the mornings but after 3 p.m. its magically back . All this is playing into weather or not your just gonna catch them or your really gonna catch em,

You can visit an area 5 times in a day and not get a bite and stop just one time after the current has been moving for a little while and you can sit there and catch them for an hour straight heck every cast most of the time. Theres been mornings where we have caught em pretty good for a couple of hours and they just stop eating like someone flipped a switch.

Size? Its kinda like a box of chocolate you just don’t know what your gonna get..

So yes we are catching fish, are we catching big ones? yes and no. I like catching 5-8 pounders I know thats asking a lot this time of year so 2-4 pounds are considered big 🤷🏻‍♂️. Id like to see the lake level stay consistent and maybe a few days of just rain.. to flush the system out and group them up a little better..

86 degrees has been the avg temp

and some places are clearer then others

Grass is looking really good, nice and healthy

Frog bite has been steady along with a worm bite … oh when you find them eating you can throw whatever you’d like to at them, they will eat it .

Heres some pics ..

Booking Info HERE

Capt. Jim

www.guntersvillebassguides.com

256-698-6593

Guntersville 8.6.18 🐸

August 6, 2018 by Capt. Jim

Its starting to look like things are lining up.. Lake Guntersville is getting herself back together after a slow down a couple weeks ago.. Still a lot of moving going on as the bass are trying to figure out what they want.. But one thing is for sure the big ones are still there and mixed in with the elementary size bass.

Grass… Yes the grass is starting to develop in to mats in select areas and has given us some great action… And this heat is bad but it will make fishing the mats even better as it cooks the top layer and gets all cheesy ..

Water Temp : 86

Clarity is 3 feet

Heres a few pics:::

Eric and I went out for a couple of hours to try to figure out the big bite and it seems we got a start on it.. with them being within 10-15 yards from where I’ve been guiding just hunkered down a little more then we have been fishing…

We have had a fun week out here, looking forward to the transition into fall and see what is in store for us…

Booking INFO

FROGGIN TRIPS ARE NOW OPEN.

Capt. Jim

www.guntersvillebassguides.com

256-698-6593

The Guntersville Curve

July 29, 2018 by Capt. Jim

Well they call it dog days of summer for a reason, throw in a full moon and your window of opportunity is very short. and staying focus was key to putting fish in the boat. This past week proved to be one of the toughest weeks that I have seen this year. Early in the week small fish was all we could find. As the week went on the bigger bass started to bite just a little and using the same lures as we have been for the past couple weeks, the Worms and Creature Baits T-Mac & Baby Mad Paca produced the bites… By Friday the bites became very consistent and just like it ought to be. Seems Like The Bass Are In Transition. After they get settled the bite should improve and as we approach the end of summer in a few weeks the frog bite should be just right.

Water Temp 83

Water Clarity 2-3 Feet

Here are some pics :

Fisher was on his way to fish the Jr. Championship up in Kentucky.. Good Luck in your tournament.

For Booking Click HERE

Capt.Jim

www.guntersvillebassguides.com

256-698-6593

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2018 Recap & Recent Trips

Leary Wilson Win Black Friday Tournament For 2nd Time

Eric Wilson & Jim Leary Win With A Big Limit In 6th Annual Black Friday Tournament Out Of Waterfront Bay on Lake Guntersville.

2019

Wilson & Leary Win Back2Back Jakked Baits Tournaments

GUNTERSVILLE IS ABOUT RIGHT

Lake Guntersville Fun Fall Fishing

TopWater Fishing Lake Guntersville 10-5-18 Updated 10-7-18

For Booking INFO CLICK HERE

or Call 256-698-6593

Capt. Jim

256-698-6593

www.guntersvillebassguides.com

Guntersville And Chickamauga Bass Fishing

Guntersville Is Fishing…..

Guntersville 8.6.18 🐸

The Guntersville Curve

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